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Re:Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to... by mtgx on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:16AM (#19938752)
So then we agree it's a problem.

What code do you actually trust? (to be incorruptible/unhackable, etc)

Re:Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to... by maccard on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:34AM (#19938874)
I think you're being overly pedantic and ultimately unhelpful and not contributing to the discussion.

When I install software I am implicitly trusting it, whether that software is trustworthy or not. If it is exploitable that doesn't mean I didn't trust the software. On my personal computer, the expectation is that only the software I have implicitly trusted will be running. If I install something that isn't trustworthy but trust it anyway it's game over. If it's exploited, that's a different issue to trusting it.

Shared VMs are a totally different ball game. All of a sudden I am sharing resources with a potentially bad actor.whethrt or not I trust them is kind of indifferent, I don't get to choose who I colocate with, and ultimately that's the difference.

Re:Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to... by atq2119 on Friday May 17, 2019 @09:13AM (#19939231)
So you've disabled JavaScript, right?
Re:Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to... by acdha on Friday May 17, 2019 @09:33AM (#19939414)
… or are running that JavaScript in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, or Internet Explorer which all shipped updates last year.

Being pedantic about this is not helping anyone actually be more secure: the odds are orders of magnitude greater that someone will be compromised by a different security problem than by the diminishing returns trying this attack against a current browser, and that the attacker will directly obtain the data they want without needing a side-channel attack.